The difference 7 months and spinal fusion makes!

The picture in white was at Grandpa's wedding 7 months ago, the one in purple taken today, one month after her surgery.

She is so much taller!! Sitting straight, and look, she has a neck :)

Stori is out of the hospital again!

Well Satori's ended up at our local hospital with pneumonia, after a day there and not getting any better she was transported to a larger hospital in Reno to PICU.

Luckily we only spent a day in ICU and then got downgraded to a regular room. So after several days on a couple IV antibiotics we were able to bring her home!!

She is still on oxygen and pretty sick but VERY happy to be home and taking full advantage of the intensive K9 therapy here :)

Look what the cat (literally) drug in!

Our kitty just brought this little present to Satori.

We got him or her all cozy in a box and when Jeremy gets home I'll go release the poor little thing in the sagebrush where it came from.

Satori has the box right next to us here on the couch... She is keeping a very good eye on our fuzzy friend!

Tori can't catch a break!!

But she can catch pneumonia. Poor monkey has pneumonia right now. Her back is healing well, and she is needing far less pain meds, but now on antibiotics for the lung gunk...

She is almost all the way through the postcards, and about to start on the regular cards (stuff in envelopes) she's really enjoying the mail.

Thank you all so much!!

She is doing GREAT!!

Satori is LOVING her postcards!!

You can still send them if you like to the address above :)

We are home and she has been up and around in her wheelchair more and more each day. It is unbelievable how quickly she is healing!!!

She just got this super cute stationary from Doodlekins to write to her friend while she is out of school. Her home bound teacher starts next week which she is excited about. Hopefully she'll make it back to school before the end of the school year!

Satori sitting TALL!

Satori has been home from the hospital two days now and today she went out in the back yard with her dogs for a little bit.

I can not believe HOW TALL SHE IS!

I think she is almost 4 inches taller than before the surgery. She is doing very well, still on loads of pain meds and Valium for muscle spasms, but getting better every day!

She has continued to receive a few postcards every day gets so excited when the mail man comes. We've been slowly going through the pile from the hospital and plan to post pictures of some of them soon.

Thanks so much to all of you who participated, it has really made her feel special :)

We are HOME!!

Satori was paroled from UC Davis med center :) Yay, we are HOME!!!

Satori was on TV showing off her postcards

Satori was on KCRA last night showing off some of the TONS of postcards she received from Twitter members all over the world.

VIEW THE TV INTERVIEW

2 things to keep in mind before watching... Satori was very medicated. LOL and as for me, the camera adds 50 lbs right?

Sleep dep takes its toll

All I did was run to the coffee cart for tea, and I managed to misplace Satori.

It took me a full three minutes of confusion after "losing" the entire pediatric ward (and my kid in it) to figure out I was on the wrong floor.

A little light reading for the morning.

Satori spent part of her morning looking through her first batch of postcards.

She was also interviewed by KCRA TV 3 this afternoon and showed off some of them.

Note to all of you planning to be interviewed on TV... Take those pain meds AFTER the TV crew leaves not right before they show up ;)

Today was a loooong day!!

After getting tons of mail and getting out of bed and into her wheelchair for the first time since surgery (which didn't go all so well) Satori is exhausted.

I think the pillow says it all!

Satori's prized postcard!!

Satori got three postcards from The Mythbusters!

They were all autographed and had nice messages.

She was so excited by these!

Thanks especially to Grant!!!!!!!!

Satori checks out her first pile of postcards.

Satori gets some mail

The Mail delivery cart comes with mail for Satori...

Would you like some steel with that?

X-Rays

There is a lot of steel in my kids back!!

The first picture is the upper part of her back, If you look close you can see her vertebrae in between the screws.






The middle picture is a side view of her lower back.





The last one is a view of her pelvis from the front, you can see the rods on either side of her spine and the screws that anchor the bottom into her pelvic bone on either side.